Comment by ilaksh

It's fascinating to me how dramatically software engineering has changed over the last couple of years due to advanced LLMs and programming tools.

For whatever high percentage of engineers, having AI generate and edit code is now a large part of their day. That and reviewing code and testing take up more time.

Whether you want to call them engineers or not, producing custom software is much more accessible now.

There are a lot of consequences. For one thing, I think that this is going to reduce the market share of products like Salesforce and some other relatively high priced software that is often highly customized. There will be lots more open source competitors and many companies or departments generating custom software to replace it or parts of it.